Video Gallery

I make videos. Those are they, up there. Why write more word when less word do trick? Also, there are more projects with videos and words below, in case you want to read words and watch – I encourage you to just watch but I have absolutely no way to enforce that.Video GalleryWorks, Galleries, Videos Kessler Syndrome | Space JunkSpace, Videos Rich Ober for Chico City Council 2020 Ad SpotWorks, Community, Design, Videos A Sovereign State of MindVideos Cloroxix Disinfectadol …

Photo Gallery

I MANAGE TO STAY IN THE BOATCATTHESEEINGNOTIMAGINEA small sampling of my favorite photosOut of thousands (probably closer to a few hundred billion) of photos I’ve taken around our big rock in space, these are a few of my personal favorites.

Music Gallery

A small sampling of music I’ve madeOut of many songs or audible things I’ve made whilst on our big rock in space, these are a few of my personal favorites. I’m purposely not going to write much here (partly out of laziness) because words are a distraction. This page is about listening.

Studio

1920 Gibson A-Style Mandolinhome away from home with fun tools and toys for ears and eyesWhen we moved from Austin, TX to Chico, CA in 2014 we bought a wonderful historic home and it had this cool detached structure that appeared to have been used as a pottery studio (complete with a room for a kiln and pottery wheel). I quickly made the decision to convert this space into a dual puprpose studio space for music/audio and video. Over the …

Ober for Chico Design

for Chico City CouncilOBERRichGobs of design for a great person and his city council campaignI worked very closely with Rich Ober on his 2018 Chico city council run. Though the campaign was not ultimately a success we learned what worked and what did not. Rich is running again in 2020 and I’ve signed on to do photos, graphic design, website design, video work, print design, and radio spot – so, a few things. It’s early in the game now and …

Early Rafting Years | 1990’s on the Cache La Poudre

– SERIOUSLY, IT AIN’T WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE… -Musings and photos from my inaugural years in the rafting mafiaI started guiding on rivers in 1995 on the Cache la Poudre just outside Fort Collins, CO, and have been a proud and filthy river rat ever since. The Poudre is a tight and technical river, and is still my favorite river in the USA. It’s a gem that doesn’t get as much attention as the Colorado River or the Arkansas in …

Deeper I. Artificial Intelligence in Video

(EXPERIMENTAL) VIDEO WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND A MODULAR SYNTHESIZER. Eurorack modular synth music & deep dream / deep style imagery combined to make sexy. The above video represents two months of work condensed into 2160 frames. All-in this work reflects a little over seven weeks of elbow grease and head scratching. Processing the various forms of imagery completely commandeered my Mac’s CPU and GPU for well over 48 hours. Each of the five main video segments were separated into individual …

Deeper II. Artificial Intelligence in Video

(EXPERIMENTAL) VIDEO WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND A MODULAR SYNTHESIZER. Eurorack modular synth music & deep dream / deep style imagery combined to make sexy. Welcome to the second video in the Deeper trilogy. Like its predecessor, Deeper1, this video features deep dream / deep style imagery combined with original music from my Eurorack modular to make sexy time for ears and eyes. Cheers to Deep Dream Generator & EbSynth for inspiring and enabling wild creativity. This video represents a little …

Deeper III. Artificial Intelligence in Video

(EXPERIMENTAL) VIDEO WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND A MODULAR SYNTHESIZER. Eurorack modular synth music & deep dream / deep style imagery combined to make sexy. Welcome to the final video in the Deeper trilogy! Like its predecessors, this video melds real footage and deep dream imagery with original music composed by me on my Eurorack modular synth. HUGE shouts out to Deep Dream Generator and EbSynth, for inspiring, enabling, and facilitating creativity play. This video represents a little over six months …

Deep Style Photos

Deep Dream image synthesis  &  Deep Style Transfer. Deep dream synthesis & deep style transfer use artificial intelligence that combines artificial and human intelligence to generate a unique composite of two images. The underlying technology was created by google and released to the public as open source software in 2015. Now there are a handful of pieces of software & mobile apps available, as well as a number of websites that handle much of the fine tweaking and work for …